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— Happy 100th birthday NASA!

March
3, 1915 marks the birthday of the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, the federal agency founded to institutionalize aeronautical
research, which later went on to become NASA in 1958. According to
NASA,
President Woodrow Wilson and Congress charged the new agency “to
supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with
a view to their practical solution.” The original committee was made up
of 12 volunteers with an allocated a budget of $5,000 — and we’re still using their inventions today.